Check out the link to the Early California Cultural Atlas video linked in the above web post to learn about the reality of Native life getting subjugated by the Spanish Franciscan Mission colonization process. LA was not a tribal reality – it was a bunch of autonmous villages. To use made-up terms like “Tongva” or “Kizh” erases this history for nefarious objectives. The Native peoples referred to themselves according to the villages they came from.
